Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Beverage Capsule System With Code And Bit Error Correction' Filed by Societe Des Produits Nestle S. A.

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517078279 A) filed by Societe Des Produits Nestle S. A., Vevey, Switzerland, on Aug. 18, for 'beverage capsule system with code and bit error correction.'

Inventor(s) include Balasi, Szabolcs; Feo, Matteo Yann; Guyon, Bertrand; Pfister, Matthias; Stoller, Cyril; and Wyder, Stephan.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system has a container for containing precursor material and a machine for preparing a beverage and/or foodstuff or a precursor thereof from said precursor material The container has a code to at least partially encode preparation information. The machine includes: a code reading system to read the code; a processing unit for processing the precursor material of the container; and electrical circuitry to control the processing unit based on the preparation information. The electrical circuitry is configured to: read the code to obtain a code read; determine a characteristic of a neighbouring non-code portion in proximity of a code portion of the code read; correct an associated characteristic of the code portion based on the determined characteristic of the neighbouring non-code portion to account for variations of the characteristic in the non-code portion."

The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 18, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/057113.

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